EdgeCityRed
12d ago
I read it due to the buzz and I have deep regrets.
EdgeCityRed
12d ago
Cassandra Cla(i)re was well-known in the fandom space. https://fanlore.org/wiki/Cassandra_Claire
EdgeCityRed
13d ago
Something really amusing regarding Malfoy given your mention of 50 Shades, which was Twilight fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off (meaning the author changed the names to be allowed to publish it as original fiction). There's a Draco/Hermione story that is also being published.
The nearly 16 million individual downloads of the author’s works; the 84,000 likes on Archive of Our Own, aka AO3, where it was first published in 2018; the 19 languages to which it’s been translated; the 71,000 ratings on Goodreads; the 470 million collective TikTok views. The TikTok readers (aka BookTokers) are especially vexed: People are clipping together their emotional states before and after reading — going into it excited and chipper, and finishing with red-rimmed eyes and stifling sobs.
And the latest flick of the wand: SenLinYu, 32, has leveraged all this into a book deal, a reimagined version of “Manacled” that will leave the characters and world of “Harry Potter” behind.
By 2025, the enemies-to-lovers romance centered around Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy will undergo a transformation to become a novel called “Alchemised,” Sen announced Feb. 5. It’ll be a dark fantasy with new characters, published by Del Rey at Penguin Random House in the U.S. and Michael Joseph in the U.K.
The upshot here is that female romance fandom commonly takes franchise characters and smushes them together in transformative works. This is VERY true of Avengers fandom, but a lot of it is slash, because Marvel/Disney are never going to let Cap and Bucky bang onscreen.
Personally, I'm not particularly interested in romance in superhero movies. It feels shoehorned-in.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
Well, they're not condemning Trump for pardoning Kushner's dad and then naming him to the post of Ambassador to France.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
Spotify researches the playlists that users make and will make similar ones. This is something I've noticed over the years; it's just serving a userbase, because some people won't bother to actually create themed playlists but will search for them. For example, I've made a playlist or two for (NFL) football season, and if I enter "football" it shows me a Spotify-created list called Hype Football Mix. There's a Vampiric Mix (which is actually garbage) because I've favorited some user's playlist to make fanvids for an Anne Rice series. Most of these are probably AI-driven.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
Precisely. That's a tomorrow problem when you're in that state.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
If Muslims were making laws aimed at me, I'd care more about what they do.
Most people don't care about others' personal beliefs, as long as they don't affect people who don't believe the same things.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
The trans fantasy - and this part is true for both AGP and HSTS - is to be a 95th percentile hotness woman. The rest of womanhood or womenfolk don’t concern them or factor into it at all.
I can see the appeal of transitioning to become male (if the button-push scenario were real versus hormones and surgery); menstruation is a horrid, annoying hassle at best, pregnancy and childbirth can have severe deleterious effects on the body, and men don't have to be very concerned about aging, because their eye wrinkles and gray hair are viewed as distinguished and not extinguished by society. Men who go overboard with botox and surgery come off kind of sad. Wearing makeup and cute outfits are the FUN part of being female.
But if I were to transition, I wouldn't look like George Clooney; I have female hips, testosterone can cause baldness, and I'm 95th-percentile female tall, but as a man, I'd be average. It's shallow of me, maybe, but I don't see a point to doing it without a serious gender dysphoria element if you're not going to pass easily and end up hot.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
His family here in Florida have tens of millions of dollars. This grift would seem...unnecessary.
EdgeCityRed
6mo ago
Donating blood also helps lower your microplastics levels (and donating plasma is even better!) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/
EdgeCityRed
8mo ago
This is much more of a "seedy bar/club with shady strangers" thing than a fraternity party thing. Not that young women shouldn't be in the habit of guarding their drinks, because in their 20s they'll probably in club spaces at times.
EdgeCityRed
8mo ago
Let's not confuse "cool" and "popular." Cool can suggest mystery, but transparently popular in a very conformist way is what these sorority girls are.
EdgeCityRed
9mo ago
Vance screwed up a conversation with normie minimum wage employees in a donut shop. He is bad at many types of public speaking, though he can write a decent essay.
EdgeCityRed
9mo ago
Changing the 2nd Amendment now would likely be a bad idea for the simple reason that there are already so many guns in the US that there is no plausible way that simply getting rid of the 2nd Amendment would lead to any outcome than a bunch of pro-social people handing in their guns while a huge fraction of anti-social people keep them.
That's where I stand. It seems to have worked in Australia, but it's much easier to smuggle guns into the US.
I'm fine with background checks to hopefully forestall some of the impulsively murdersome and going back to the assault weapons ban. The book should continue to be thrown very forcefully at people who use guns in the commission of a crime.
EdgeCityRed
9mo ago
Much of the time, unfortunately, it's the family who can't let go and insist that very elderly, very sickly people be coded and revived despite zero quality of life in the US. Whether it's guilt or love or inability to say goodbye or accept death or because "giving up" on grandpa might look bad.
I would like to outline my wishes with ZERO intervention from others if I, say, later become mostly incapacitated due to something like dementia. I should be able to state now that if I pass a certain threshold, I'll be given a nice spot in a garden at dusk with a blanket over my knees and an adulterated cognac that'll put me permanently to sleep in a dignified fashion.
In the absence of this, I do think that impartial physicians should be making the call NOT to break granny's ribs with vigorous CPR and keep her alive for an extra month of fun n' bedsores.
EdgeCityRed
9mo ago
The ACA is now ingrained enough in the American public that no Republican is making that the center of their campaign, even if they are nominally still in favor of overturning it.
Well, that was the assumption about Roe, too. And look what happened there.
EdgeCityRed
10mo ago
Liberal women steer clear of Trump supporters not because they worry "he won't be able to effectively prioritize my emotional needs in the relationship" but because they worry that the cops are going to knock on their door if they go the doctor after a miscarriage.
Being "hectored to death" is not equivalent. Being concerned about 2A restrictions might be somewhat equivalent in the sphere of rights being taken away.
EdgeCityRed
10mo ago
Kamala brings new energy to the party, has the same platform as Joe for continuity, and the GOP only has three months to attack her (versus 20+ years for Hillary.)
Women are fired UP after the Roe decision.
EdgeCityRed
10mo ago
Trump has been found liable for sexual misconduct in court so that has less resonance than you think.
EdgeCityRed
10mo ago
It's not really dishonorable if he's legitimately unwell. It would actually be clever to give Kamala a shot at being in front, helming any further debates, etc.
All she needs to do is get OUT the vote among women (and get traditionally uninspired young people to the polls). Hilary wasn't popular and she still beat Trump with the popular vote. Democrats aren't going to be turned off by Kamala, and undecideds that lean left will be reassured that she's not a doddering elder.
EdgeCityRed
1yr ago
For what it's worth as an over-50, nearly all of the gay men and lesbians I know (from work, from high school, from college, from my military years) are with long-term partners or married. The few who aren't are partiers/drinkers/a bit nuts, like a fair number of the single/divorced straight people I know in this cohort.
EdgeCityRed
1yr ago
It appears that in response to this the same media that gave him a platform for years and cheered on his lifestyle started calling up every one of his "1000 women" in order to get dirt on him.
Orrrr, Brand knew the allegations would surface at some point and cultivated a following that believes in conspiracy theories and doesn't condemn men for sexual misconduct.
EdgeCityRed
2yr ago
Because as soon as something become profitable, men take it over and pretend women didn't contribute anything.
EdgeCityRed
2yr ago
I honestly don't understand the weird outrage towards these ad campaigns. People getting angry over "woke" ads just don't understand that not all ads are aimed at them. The drag queen Bud Light endorsement was a short instagram reel and it was aimed at that person's followers, not conservatives or rednecks. It's real main character syndrome energy to get mad because an ad campaign doesn't reflect your own individual or group likes/dislikes/personae.
Weirdly (or, actually...predictably) the last three cars we've owned were the peak popular colors at the time: blue, black, and now dark gray, but we've chosen blue or gray/silver cars forever. Having grown up in a snowy place, I instinctively dislike white cars, because they scream "hard to see against the landscape" and "please deposit mud here."
Fashion is trying to tune people into "dopamine dressing" currently, with fun, bold colors, but people are reacting to actual or perceived economic distress and still choosing Quiet Luxury neutrals; if you can't be rich, as least you can look rich.
Interiors are still in the Magnolia Home modern farmhouse gray and white vice grip, and flipping hasn't helped.
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